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Reading Fiction Quotes

Jennifer Weiner quote: "Read everything. Read fiction and non-fiction, read hot best..."
Read everything. Read fiction and non-fiction, read hot best sellers and the classics you never got around to in college. Jennifer Weiner
Reading fiction is important. It is a vital means of imagining a life other than our own, which in turn makes us more empathetic beings. Following complex story lines stretches our brains beyond the 140 characters of sound-bite thinking, and staying within the world of a novel gives us the ability to be quiet and alone, two skills that are disappearing faster than the polar icecaps. Ann Patchett
Reading fiction not only develops our imagination and creativity, it gives us the skills to be alone. It gives us the ability to feel empathy for people we've never met, living lives we couldn't possibly experience for ourselves, because the book puts us inside the character's skin. Ann Patchett
You should never read just for "enjoyment." Read to make yourself smarter! Less judgmental. More apt to understand your friends' insane behavior, or better yet, your own. Pick "hard books." Ones you have to concentrate on while reading. And for god's sake, don't let me ever hear you say, "I can't read fiction. I only have time for the truth." Fiction is the truth, fool! Ever hear of "literature"? That means fiction, too, stupid. John Waters
Writing fiction is not a profession that leaves one well-disposed toward reading fiction. One starts out loving books and stories, and then one becomes jaded and increasingly hard to please. I read less and less fiction these days, finding the buzz and the joy I used to get from fiction in ever stranger works of non-fiction, or poetry. Neil Gaiman
I don't always want to read serious fiction. But when I read fiction that's not serious, I don't want to read brain candy. Entertain me, for God's sake. Dorothea Benton Frank
But my philosophy is that plot advancement is not what the experience of reading fiction is about. If all we care about is advancing the plot, why read novels? We can just read Cliffs Notes. George R. R. Martin
Jonathan Lethem quote: "I learned to write fiction the way I learned to read fiction -..."
I learned to write fiction the way I learned to read fiction - by skipping the parts that bored me. Jonathan Lethem
To read fiction means to play a game by which we give sense to the immensity of things that happened, are happening, or will happen in the actual world. By reading narrative, we escape the anxiety that attacks us when we try to say something true about the world. This is the consoling function of narrative? the reason people tell stories, and have told stories from the beginning of time. Umberto Eco
Orson Scott Card quote: "Oh no, real life is escape. The great terrors, the horrors--we..."
Oh no, real life is escape. The great terrors, the horrors--we hope--of your life come from reading fiction. Orson Scott Card
Alfred Hitchcock quote: "I can't read fiction without visualizing every scene. The..."
I can't read fiction without visualizing every scene. The result is it becomes a series of pictures rather than a book. Alfred Hitchcock
Alice Hoffman quote: "That is the joy of reading fiction: when all is said and..."
That is the joy of reading fiction: when all is said and done, the novel belongs to the reader and his or her imagination. Alice Hoffman
Mark Haddon quote: "Young readers have to be entertained. No child reads fiction..."
Young readers have to be entertained. No child reads fiction because they think it's going to make them a better person. Mark Haddon
Brent Spiner quote: "I don't read fiction at all."
I don't read fiction at all. Brent Spiner
Fiction does something unique in that it takes us out of our heads and puts us into other people's heads. And I think reading, and experiencing fiction through reading, is something that gives us empathy. And that, I think, is vital. It takes us out of our lives. Without reading, you're stuck with one life. Reading gives you more than one life. It gives you an infinite number of lives, which I think is wonderful. Or at least, not infinite, but as many as there are books on the shelves. Neil Gaiman

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